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Re: terminate a PHP script [message #172576 is a reply to message #172548] Tue, 22 February 2011 01:15 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:50:39 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:
>> Because of the incredible convolution and depth of nested if/then/else
>> you can get to. If I have (as it might be) a function that's scanning a
>> string looking for and obtaining options and their values for some
>> command previously scanned off the string, and I detect an error, I want
>> to set an error code and exit right there. I don't want any subsequent
>> maintainer to have to intuit that, in fact, from this point on nested
>> 15-deep in else clauses, no more code is executed for that path through
>> the function.
>>
>> That way I rarely get more than 3-deep in if/then/else. To me, it's all
>> about readbility.
>
> *grin* for me, it's all about comprehesibility. If you don't like how
> deep you're nesting, maybe you need to break something out into a
> function instead....
>
Yes, but how much stack do you have? Can you afford the overhead of a
call/return? How much does splitting a whole block of code to four pages
away make the comprehensibility problem worse, not better?
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